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The 9/11 Report is Hindsight Wisdom at its Most Fatuous
From The New York Times, an opinion article by Richard Posner, judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School and the author of the forthcoming book Catastrophe: Risk and Response..... the 9/11 commission report is an uncommonly lucid, even riveting, narrative of the attacks, their background and the response to them. .... The prose is free from bureaucratese and, for a consensus statement, the report is remarkably forthright. Though there could not have been a single author, the style is uniform. The document is an improbable literary triumph. However, the commission's analysis and recommendations are unimpressive. .... The participation of the relatives of the terrorists' victims (described in the report as the commission's ''partners'') lends an unserious note to the project (as does the relentless self-promotion of several of the members). One can feel for the families' loss, but being a victim's relative doesn't qualify a person to advise on how the disaster might have been prevented. .... Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2004-08-27 |
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